Time for me to continue what I had started last chapter starting where I left off. Well, sort of. It'll start off where I had left off, just not from Alpha Squad's perspective. We're going to be hanging out with Bravo Squad now for a little bit until later on. No clue how long this chapter is going to be but I have a lot of different things planned so I hope this chapter is up to your expectations.

There is a pretty decent chance though that this one is going to be a big one most likely because there is so much I want to get done and put in this chapter. I have approximately a little less than two weeks to get it done. As much as I'd like to update this story twice a month, I do not write consistently enough or have the will to right 10-20k words a month like when this first came out. Mainly because these chapters are longer than the first two were but nobody seems to mind which is nice.

Feel free to leave a review, everything and anything said is appreciated. I hope you all enjoy, Ciao!


London, England

2/02/2019

2:25 PM

"Bravo Team, we have located Ghost. He refused to be extracted though, he said he had a job to finish after we witnessed him kill multiple White Masks." Thermite said through comms.

"He's fookin hiding something. Least he seems to be on our side still. Did he say anything about Dokkaebi's last known location? We didn't see any outline that looked like hers." Thatcher said as his squad

"He said she was at a police line on your side somewhere and knowing Dokkaebi, she's probably somewhere around here. After all, you're the hammer and she's the scalpel if I'm quoting that right."

"Wot the fuck ever. That doesn't matter currently. We need to find her ASAP. After we find her, we will have a better chance of getting Ghost because he'll always talk and answer to her. Gotta find out where that boy is going since he probably won't speak about whatever is going on in that head of his to us."

Ash walked up to Thatcher and gave him the British man a pat on the back knowing he'd be on the radio with her boyfriend for ages trying to get his way with the plan. Thatcher turned and looked her way through his gas mask, a scowl obviously covering his face. "Thatcher, just go with the plan. We need to find our remaining operator while we deal with the White Masks," She said just as gunfire erupted from the from two different areas nearby, "The firefight away from the base of Big Ben has to be either Ghost or Dokkaebi. I'd say me and Cav go check the out because Alpha Squad is going to need you three's help. You're some of the most deadliest operators Rainbow has. Plus me and Caveira can sneak into that other gun fight and find people as well as interrogate whomever we find."

Thatcher shook his head and turned his gun's safety off. Without a word, he motioned for Jäger and Tachanka who had his LMG unmounted and loaded, ready to turn anything that got in his way to dust. The two glanced at each other and shrugged before following their leader to advance past the bullet riddle Vauxhalls.

"Guess that leaves you and me Caveira, let's go see what the White Masks are up to in this neck of the woods."

"It probably came from this that market area," Cav said, pointing out what looked to be a small area for shopping.

From the looks of it, the place had been filled with the bodies of White Masks, Policemen, and even civilians from what they were able to see from the exterior. The two creeped towards where the gunfire had once came from and looked into the empty market. The bodies were many and plentiful, some even forming small piles on top of each other. The blood that soaked the ground and stained everything around the was fresh and happened to still be dripping down walls and leave footprints anywhere that hasn't been spoiled yet. It saddened Ash knowing that what was probably hundreds of civilians and a few dozen police officers had to face death in this attack. What got the Israeli's head moving however was that there were many dead White Masks that covered the area. The deeper her and Cav got into the market, the warmer the terrorists' bodies got. Somebody had to still be either alive and still fighting, or they had finally perished after a long, struggle filled battle for their life. The sound of a single shotgun shot went off followed by a feminine voice shouting swears from around a the corner into an alleyway. Ash and Cav looked at each other filled with alarm and drew their weapons as they stalked to where the blast and scream had radiated from. Buildings loomed and towered over the area which blackened the area between them at the end of the darkness was the light. Within it, four people standing around a somebody else who had been in a fighting stance. Ash signaled for Cav to circle around to cover more area before she herself began to push up. She felt like she was one with the shadows, an assassin in the cloaked by the night as a brawl began broke out between the four who she assumed to be terrorist and what looked to be a girl fending off her assailants.

Ash's heart pounded and begged for Ash to do something about it but it was too dangerous until Cavi was set up and ready for their ambush. "Come on Taina… Hurry up and get into position… I really don't want to fucking have a civilian die because we couldn't move fast enough." She thought as she witnessed her force two the the men's heads together followed by kicking one of the Masks away before being tackled to the ground. Ash sighed as she took her M120 CREM from the loop that held it against her back and aimed it at some rubble from a nearby building that had collapsed to cause a distraction and buy that woman some time. The explosion that followed the shot shook the bricks and concrete they stood on, shooting the four terrorists' attention to the blast's location giving the woman enough time to throw a punch at her attacker's jaw and get up.

"Enough playing then bitch. If you won't be our bitch alive, you're going to do it dead." The biggest one who had just been kicked off the girl said, pulling out what looking to be some smaller type of pistol with a Russian flag, "You have made a grave mistake darling. It's a shame too, you would have made a fine woman if you had only listened rather than try and stand up for yourself."

The sound of the hammer clicking into position echoed throughout the small grotto as he pointed the pistol at her forehead. Before Ash could swap to either of her firearms, somebody rushed into the scene from the side Cav was moving to and grabbed the gun from his hand and put a bullet to the man's kneecap and dumped the magazine and gun itself. Taking this opportunity, Ash quickly grabbed her sidearm and pushed towards the group. "All of you, hands up now."

The White Masks refused to turn but they didn't retaliate since they were unarmed. The two civilians however turned to Ash revealing their identities, the two missing operators. Dokkaebi's face lit up as she scooped up the gun she borrowed from Fuze. "Ash! Where's everybody else?"

"That doesn't matter right now, we have to extract you and Ghost then deal with the rest of the White Masks. I don't think you've noticed as you've been having your own commotion, but the rest of my squad excluding Cav who is somewhere nearby and Alpha Squad are currently out there trying to massacre those at the roots of the attack. Once we get you and your boyfriend out of here, we have a job to finished."

"I'm not leaving until I know every Mask here is dead or in custody." Ghost said as he flipped a well worn AK-47 off his back and pointed it at the three standing terrorists. "This is a warning for you three fucks that I won't tolerate your shit." He said as and shot a single bullet through their already downed comrade's head.

"It's official orders of Six. If you and Dokkaebi don't leave London and go back to base, there's going to be consequences for insubordination. I don't think you want to experience that."

"No fun, looks like I missed the party you three had with these four filhos da putas." A Brazilian accent said from behind the two newly found operators. "Girl, I had to help a few civilians get to safety because I ended up having to take down a couple of Masks along the way and interrogate one to see what he knew. Nothing of use except for a weapons stash which I've already notified the S.A.S of so they've got that covered."

"Look both of you," Ghost said, making sure he had both Caveira and Ash's attention, "I'm not leaving without my car. I'd prefer to take me and Doki back to base with that even if it takes longer. I'd rather go back with her to ensure her safety, but I refuse to take a chopper."

"I'd prefer to take the Chopper but I refuse to leave Ghost." Dokkaebi added, grabbing his free arm.

Caveira shook her head as she tried to hide her smile, "I'll report back to Six since Ash is more of a rule follower for you two lovebirds. Now get out of here and make sure your ride is safe and sound. It isn't safe."

Ghost nodded and grabbed Dokkaebi's hand, taking off before the girl could react to the fact that they were leaving London.

Without looking back to see the couple making a run to the Ferrari Dealership, Ash stared at her partner in crime, "So Miss Rule Breaker, what shall we do with these three?"

"Hmmm…" Cav replied as she slowly strides towards the the terrorist's slowly pulling Lusion from it's holster, "I say we have a little bit of fun with them. Let's see what they know in the process of this entire fuckfest."

"Fine by me. Just put a bullet in one of their knees each. We can go off of our own judgement later on in our little interrogation. For now though, we can play nice with these fucks."


"Thatcher, throw an EMP at that truck! Glaz is saying that truck is laced with explosives and that he had wiped the man with the detonator. As much as I'd love to see that thing blow, there is a time and place for everything."

"No need to bloody monologue lad, all you have to tell me is to throw the damned EMP somewhere to disable all their electrical garbage."

Thermite rolled his eyes at his comrade's smartass response, "Lion. Use your remaining drone scan. We've cleared out half of the site we've still got the other side of Ben as well as the outskirts which I'm sure Ghost, Dokkaebi, Ash, and Caveira have been clearing out while doing their own things."

"Hope you made it count, this is all this puppy has got left until I land the thing. Big Brother coming in for overview."

An abundance of red outlines filled the area that lied ahead of the group but most of them seemed to be lightweight grunts at best. From Glaz's perspective, most of them carried submachine guns and shotguns with only a couple of the what were probably higher ranks carrying assault rifles that looked like they had seen their fair share of combat in previous eras. While Glaz went from rooftop to rooftop trying to reposition himself to where he could see the entire south side of the collapsed clock tower, his squads mates were coming up with a plan.

"I zhink zhat ve should push zhem back into a smaller area sort of like a final stand. Due to zhere being a total of eight of us, ve could go four and four. One group to zhe west side and zhe other to zhe east. Ve'll end up cornering zhem on zhe final side zhat neither squad has been to."

"I support the German. After all, they had to defend themselves on both the Eastern and Western fronts at one point." Tachanka joked, laughing at himself.

"How shall we split us up then? One of us is going to have to be a group of three since Glaz is up on the rooftops picking them off." Lion said, leaning on his V308.

"Jäger and Lion, you two come with me," Thermite said as he turned his comms on, "Glaz, requesting covering fire for me, Lion, and Jäger. We're only a group of three as Thatcher, Doc, Tachanka, and Jackal are going to be the other squad."

"Da, got it. Which side will you be attacking from?"

Thermite had a short and snappy discussion with his fellow operators about who is going where on this ambush before giving the Russian an answer. "West side, it's a shorter route for you to get over to if you aren't already in the location."

"I'm nearly there, just start moving up and I can provide you cover in a minute or so. I've only seen a single White Mask up here but he's long gone now. Anyways, you see that toy store with the block and ball as a sign? I'll perch there so I can stay out of sight from most, if not all of the hostile."

"Roger that," Thermite said as he looked towards his fellow operators who were patiently awaiting for orders. "Okay, we know our squads, it's time to move out. After every single Mask is taken out, we'll run into each other on the south side. Thatcher, get ahold of Ash and Cav before you move up. Our squad will get going now."

With Thermite's squad moving up in the fight, Thatcher quickly radioed up his two female squad mates. "What's up old man?"

"Where are you two at? We're about to start clearing up the center."

"We just finished interrogating three separate Masks. We also tried extracting both Dokkaebi and Ghost but they refused so they're heading back to base in his car since he refuses to leave it here."

"Any information?"

"Nothing new. Caveira got the location of an Arsenal from a different guy earlier and has already dispatched some S.A.S members to that location. Where do you want us?"

"Just sweep around the the outskirts of our location. Be merciless and kill them all those bastards…"

"Don't hesitate? Sounds good. Where shall we meet up with the rest of the group?"

"South entrance. Alpha Squad will also be there."

"See you there then old man."

Thatcher sighed as he stood up and readied himself to fight the remaining terrorists that stood up against him to carry on their reign of chaos.

Meanwhile on Thermite's end, he was preparing his team to fight with brute force and without care for their surroundings above. "Everything here is already fucked anyways, the only thing left standing besides the surrounding area our us and these goddamned terrorist so it's time to ring some ears and kick ass."

"You Americans really got hardcore after World War Two…" Jäger mumbled as he checked the bullets in his 416-C Carbine's magazine.

Thermite's eyes rolled at his German comrade's remark. Before moving up completely and getting his squad into a firefight, a threw a recon drone down to spot out the severity of the potential threats. Closest to them seemed to just be scouts armed with nothing more than handguns, a few Mac-11s, even a couple of Sawed-Off Double Barrels. The one thing they all had in common though was a lack of armor. They all had vests on but they seem thin and only meant to defend them from 9mm and smaller bullets from penetrating. They did have alright cover though, they had one of the now empty trucks, a few sandbag walls, and even some makeshift walls from the surviving portions of what was left of London's very own Big Ben.

"Glaz." He said, waiting for confirmation that his final squad member was in place.

"I'm ready. What do you need of me?"

"Take the first shot on whoever you feel we would need to worry about the most."

No response came through the radio. Thermite peeked over the concrete wall his team was behind to see a nearby Mask with a shotgun drop dead as Glaz's shot went through his head as if it were jello. In that split second where they were all distracted by where the shot had came from, Thermite pulled the pin on a flash bang and chucked it into one of the groups. As soon as the sound of the canister popping was heard, the three operators popped up and began to take down as many of the blinded terrorists as they could before having to duck down due to returning fire.

"Placing an ADS, you can stop worrying about grenades now." Jäger said, taking one of his Magpies off of his back and placing on the ground a few feet behind them.

Each operator would pop out for a couple of seconds to try and pick off someone. Glaz meanwhile would take continuous and calculated shots. Everybody he hit was either killed on the spot or severely injured. Their fight wasn't the only one happening at the moment as shots could be heard from the opposite side of the destroyed clocktower as well as it's outskirts.

Thermite took a peek at his drone to see if any of the Masks that were further back would move up but to much of his surprise, some of the surviving White Mask grunts fell back to help their more armed comrades build small forts and defensive areas that would let them fight harder and longer.

Those who were still on the front lines were either injured, fighting till their last breath, or trying to get the injured to safety. Their numbers were dwindling each minute as the three operators and their sniper suppressed the living's lives, forcing them to the grave.

"Do a quick ammunition check before moving up. Finish the final couple of these men off with your sidearms or knives to conserve what you have for your primaries." Glaz said as looked over the battlefield, scanning over what he could of Bravo Squad's side of battle. Nothing of interest or of any sort of difficulty could be spotted.

"We clear to move up? Lion and Jäger both have their pistols out to execute those who are still standing or are currently bleeding out. Where's the best place to take cover?"

"I'd advise for Lion to stay back and pick off what he can before moving up as there is only a limited amount of space. Thermite, move up to behind that pile of debris."

"Got it, what about Jäger?"

"The German can move up to behind that truck. Make sure you stay behind the wheel though, your legs can be seen anywhere else on the vehicle."

"Ja, I know. I am not stupid, going to be bringing my ADS up vith me, don't vant to risk something blowing me and zhis lorry up during our shootout." Jäger replied as he picked up the anti-nade device before sliding it under the truck so that anything thrown or shot out of his view could get destroyed.

Well, the first two devices at least. The German had only brought six shots with him so he had to make each of them count. With some sort of explosive protection in place next to something where he'd be in cover at, Jäger being one of the fastest operators Rainbow had to offer sprinted behind the vehicle with some of the White Masks taking just random potshots his way. Thermite had an easier time getting into his position as all he had to do was just jog 60 or so feet leaving Lion in the back as he was the only one of the three operators who actually brought an Acog to the fight.

Glaz watched overhead as the three operators slowly progressed their ways up, picking people off where he could in between mass amounts of gunfire to mask his location. Whenever much wasn't happening with the group he'd connect to the same comms station as Thatcher's group to give them what information he could send their way from the lack of overview on their side of the battlefield.

"Moving up, covering fire requested." Lion said, emptying his last few shots in the drum at a few of the White Masks who were returning fire without paying attention to where they were shooting or to where their bullets were landing.

Jäger and Thermite poked their heads and guns out from their cover. Bullets pelted both the truck and mix of cast iron, stone, and granite rubble that made up a giant chunk of the square. As Lion passed by, he noticed a White Mask that had been using the same piece of destroyed tower as cover and quickly pulled his .357 Revolver out and pointed it at the man. Just as his finger pulled the trigger, all he could see was gear and terror in the terrorist's eyes. It was as if at that very moment, the terrorist wasn't just another bad guy seeking to avenge the world for something that had never happened. Those thoughts of there being some humanity left over inside those heads of theirs quickly diminished as the bullet wrung through the man's skull, ending its run into the granite behind him with blood, brains, and tiny fragments of bone decorating the decent sized dent it made.


2:45 PM

Ash and Caveira split up to circle to exterior portion of the objective to cover more of the area quicker. The Israeli wasn't sure how many terrorists her comrade had found but she hadn't found a thing. The sound of Britain's miniature war against terrorism could probably be heard for miles. What amazed Ash the most however, was the lack of training given to the lower tier members of the White Mask Terrorist organization. She strolled through the outskirts, bored as hell to the point of where any time she saw something like a rat or a bird, she'd take a couple of shots at it to see if they'd land. It was this very moment where she felt like this was the calm before her own personal storm.

"Ash, come in! Call in our evacuation chopper. We have nearly cleared out the remaining White Masks and we have the S.A.S on their way to clean up the scene once every last one of the bloody bastards are fooking six feet under. I've checked in with Cav and she's killed two or three scramblers that were too scared to fight. How many have your gotten love?" Thatcher's voice spoke into her ear.

"Nobody actually. I've seen civilians hunched over the fallen who had bled out trying to escape but no hostile have been spotted. Where should I command the LZ to be at?"

"We have clearance to land near the Houses of Parliament, it's East of our location once we finish our job. After getting our ride here, check in with Ghost and Dokkaebi. We need to guarantee that they are safe and out of harm's way."

"Roger, get the job done while I do those. Do me a favor and check in to make sure Thermite is okay as well please."

A small laugh came from Thatcher, "Alright lass, I'll be sure to do that. Thatcher out."

Ash didn't even hesitate as she quickly swapped communication system signals to speak with the pilot, "Kilo Alpha Charlie Kilo Echo, requesting an evacuee, what is your status?"

"Alpha Sierra Hotel, Mothership has just lifted 5 minutes ago and is currently heading your way. Requesting an LZ location."

"You have received clearance to land at the Houses of Parliament. You will be picking up the operators brought here, the two priority targets we were supposed to extract have chosen to leave the city together and head back to base their own way. I'll be checking their status soon."

"Roger dodger, I'll be at the LZ in 10. Kacke over and out."

Knowing that Ghost and Dokkaebi didn't have any type of radio on them, she pulled out her phone and quickly pulled up Dokkaebi's number. The phone rang for fifteen or so seconds before picking pick up.

"Hello?" The familiar Korean voice said.

"Dokkaebi, have you and Ghost made it out of London unharmed?"

A sigh came through the phone, "Yeah we made it out alive. Some White Masks thought that they had made a daring escape and we got into a bit of a tussle. Ghost got a few minor cuts and one of the blades grazed his face which is probably going to end up leaving a gnarly scar."

"How deep is it? We need Lera to treat him as soon as possible!"

"Ash don't worry please. He's fine and his wounds aren't fatal. Hell, the man refused to get into his car until the wounds all stopped bleeding as well as taking off his shirt and leaving it on the ground since it was covered in our attacker's blood since Ghost May have killed them extremely brutally and with mercy. You know, stealing the knife back, gouged one's eyes out, slit one's throat then repeatedly stabbed his throat, stab~~"

"Okay okay okay, I get it. You guys are fine and your boyfriend got nicked by a knife a couple of times. Just get make sure you get him checked out when you guys get back. I have to go now, we're nearly done here are our extraction chopper is on the way."

"Okie dokie, see you once we get back to base Ash."

"Yeah, bye Doki." Ash said, hanging up her phone and putting it back into her pocket.

London's small war slowly started to get quieter and quieter as Masks dropped dead in their fight against the rainbow operators. She slowly progressed to the center where both Alpha and Bravo squads could be seen either executing the badly injured and patching up those who could be saved and questioned later on.

"So… Is that it? Are we done here people?" Ash asked.

"Yes we are my beautiful lady," Thermite said, removing his goggles and helmet, "The S.A.S, coroners, and some other people are coming to clear out the debris and corpses. We'll have a death report within the next 48 hours as well as assessing the cost of all the damage that has been dealt covering this entire area of London and some of the surroundings."

"That armory has been raided and looted by the S.A.S. They didn't have anything to impressive but there were lots of drugs, cash, firearms, and armor. To much of not only their own, but even our surprise, they had no trace of explosives in the area." Thatcher added as he took the dust covered gas mask off.

A whistle came from behind Ash revealing Cav who was dragging what looked to be an unconscious Mask behind her to the group. "Don't worry amigos, I got myself the one and only lieutenant that was apart of this attack." The Brazilian woman dropped the man's collar and left his tied up body to be collected by the police force before being sent to Hereford to get interrogated by the experts consisting of Caveira, Ghost, Ela, and Twitch. The group made their way to where the single Chinook helicopter had landed and all piled in, the two squads sitting on different sides according to their original squad at the beginning of the mission.

"You know, I should have mentioned this when I first brought that man to the wreckage but that lieutenant had these on him." Cav said, pulling a file out from under her chest piece before handing them over to Thermite, "I went over them slightly and it was their entire plan. Apparently they were suppose to rig the nearby streets with explosives as well but the police responded faster than they had expected."

Thermite scanned through the documents, every minor detail down to the specific coordinates. Hundreds of names were listed on a separate sheet of paper, every person had a specific jobs provided as well as all their personal information. "We're going to have to take this to Six you guys know. This is probably going to end up getting classified anyways because there are names of men that we know hasn't shown up. There had only been maybe 75 or so people at this attack. The rest could of been potential inside men that gave way for the White Masks to have actually managed to get those bombs in place."

"They are a world wide terrorist organization, they've probably got a good amount of funding and can obtain followers or members with easy. People nowadays aren't as smart as they use to be and will mindlessly follow whatever sounds educated to them." Jackal commented.

Tachanka laughed as he pulled his helmet off, "And they thought our generation bad, the people today are delusional and believe whatever comes from others mouth."

"That may be so but that should be the scary part. While yes, we're the best trained men and women on the goddamned planet but take a look so World War 2 for example. Fuckin Germany was a powerhouse in of its own but one of the reasons that Nazi Germany had fallen was because the Russians had overwhelmed them with their sheer numbers. I'd love to use a better analogy rather than one of the most tragic wars in history but that was the first thing that had came to my mind. We're going to need more than just us, we need a backup plan or a group lower than us that are separate from all military, police, or secret service groups. We're gonna eventually get our asses handed to us one of these days and we'll all perish for it."

"Jordan, calm down please," Eliza demanded, "Trust me. Everything is going to be fine. Remember Operation Chimera? How we had to fight and quarantine that entire area to kill the alien fucks? None of us expected to make it out alive. We thought that there'd be too many of them which in reality, there were a shit ton, but we held our ground and completed all objectives. So please get that worry from your head, we'll talk to Six, then we can relax. Nothing too fancy, nothing to sophisticated. Just enjoy the ride until we do eventually get home."


5:40 PM

The entire car ride back home was dead silent not including when Grace had gotten a call from Eliza to check on the couple's status. Luca wasn't fully sure why he was so silent during this time but he knew exactly why she refused to talk. Not only did a major terrorist attack happen just streets away from her, but it had occurred on her boyfriend causing her boyfriend to leave her to go and play the hero so he could try to prevent anymore civilian casualties which nearly costed him her life if he wasn't nearby ready to swoop in and 'save the day.' Every couple of miles or so, he'd look her direction to see her looking out window, her face covered in sadness and despair, was killing Luca.

"When we get back to base, would you like some alone time?" Luca mumbled just loud enough for her to hear, refusing to let his eyes wonder from the road ahead.

"Hm? Why would I want alone time?"

"Because you nearly died because of my actions. It would have been all my fuckin fault. If I hadn't left you alone in the hands of the local police to go off and kill as many of those damn White Masks, you wouldn't have gotten anywhere near dying. I was blinded by vengeance and I let it control me."

Grace shook her head, "You're fine. Though I'm disappointed in your decisions, that's not what's going through my mind. It's how the White Masks had launched a major terrorist attack right under our nose while we were on our date for my birthday. It feels awful knowing that's hundreds, probably even thousands of innocent people were slaughtered today. We're supposed to be able to predict and stop that type of activity being an anti-terrorism spec ops group, there should have been some sort of lead somewhere."

"They did a good job covering up all trails Grace, we couldn't have done anything to prevent what happened today." Luca said as he began to speed up to get the two home within the next fifteen or twenty minutes, "I really wish I could have done more but I did everything I could. I managed to free all the hostages I found and saved who I could before they were executed…"

The car had just began to ease back into it's quiet mourning atmosphere as the infotainment system signaled a phone call from Jordan as well as a quieter version of Luca's ringtone going off. With a sign, Luca answered the call. "Hey Luca, I have some stuff to let you know since I know you and Grace will be arriving soon."

"Not the best of time but let me hear it."

"There's going to be a meeting tomorrow morning, 0800 sharp. Apparently we're recruited two newbies from the land down under and my money is saying that at least one of their gadgets are going to be a kangaroo, spider, or snake knowing those Aussies. We… Well, everybody that had been invited to Rainbow after the original group had been made are going to meet somebody that use to frequent this base and had became a permanent member of the Rainbow Six family. Anyways, that's just what's happening tomorrow buddy. Today, you've got to meet the hostage that we've brought in to see what he knows. Good ol' Taina got her grubby little hands on the only lieutenant present at this attack as well as files that we'll have Grace dive into and check around online as well as the backgrounds of every listed found not to be present at Ground Zero. Sound good to you two?"

"I guess." Grace said as she readjusted in her seat.

"Uhm, sure thing. Your girlfriend Mrs. Trace, wanted me to go see Lera and Gustave first though. Landed myself a few slashes in a knife fight where I forgot my knife."

Thermite could be heard groaning through the car's speakers, "Did you get stabbed again and are bleeding out?"

"Man, fuck you. I'm fine. I refused to get in my car until the bleeding had stopped and I even left my shirt in London since it was covered in dried blood. At least all the blood on my pants at face up and not to where I'd be sitting on em."

"Awe, poor Ghost refusing to get his car a little bloody."

"Because my car is worth around four times more than yours and I take great care of it."

"Yeah yeah, whatever. Anyways, peace out dude. Eliza is calling my name."

"Whatever you say fuckboy, see you back at base."

With a click, the call had ended. Luca sighed in relief and down shifted to accelerate from the 70 mile an hour speed limit up to triple digits where he began to cruise at. He wanted nothing more than to beat the living shit out of the White Mask's lieutenant for the living hell him and his men had created world wide. Plots of all the ways to get the man to talk began to form in his mind as the use of other operators' help would greatly to inflict the most amount of pain on the man as possible without killing him or scouring the world for a Bullet Ant.

"Whatever crazy ass ideas you're coming up with, I'd suggest not doing," Grace said, shooting a concerned look his way, "After seeing the damage of what you have caused today, I'm not sure you'd worry about keeping that hostage alive long enough to get a peep out of him. After we get home, we're stopping at the infirmary than heading back to your room. I refuse to do anything else until we're both in the right state of mind and aren't pushing forward based on what we feel is the right thing to do"

"I guess."

~~~20 Minutes Later~~~

"Knock knock, your favorite patient has arrived to prove that he is fine and that thou wounds are just minor flesh wounds that won't require any stitches of bandages." Luca said, knocking on the door frame as he walked it to catch somebody's attention.

Lera looked up from the paperwork causing one of her eyebrows to raise in curiosity. She quickly stood and made her way to Luca and Grace to study all the different cuts on his body. "For the most part, a good three fourths of these I'd say are just minor grazes and can be left alone. For that remaining one fourth, they're all just going to leave some scars. Especially the one on your face, you're going to end up looking like me, Scarface."

"Except mine wasn't caused by a fellow Rainbow operator." Luca joked, "Got mine because I'm a dumbass for not taking Grace and leaving London after requesting some of the operators."

"You're a fighter, you and Ela would get along well since I know you two don't talk much. Both of you live and strive in chaos."

Luca chuckled, "Chaos in my home. I own that shit."

Lera moves on to Grace who was hiding behind her boyfriend, keeping a firm grip onto his hand as she stared at the floor. "Grace, did you receive any injuries that I should be aware of?"

"No Ma'am, I'm unharmed because every time I was shoved into a predicament, Luca was there to help me with my foes."

Lers gave the couple a warm smile followed by a nod, "Then why are you guys here? Neither of you need any medical attention." Before either of the two explain why they had showed up, the Russian woman waved them off. "You guys are fine. Go do your own thing for the rest of the day. The meeting we shall be having is tomorrow morning."

"Yes, we know. Thank you though, we will probably be seeing you tomorrow then. Bye Lera."

"Buh Bye you two."

The couple quickly made their way to the armory to drop off their pistols and the Remington shotgun Grace had kept that she received from the police before heading back to Grace's room for a change instead of Luca's. He had ever actually been in her room in his life so he was amazed when her room was a beauty baby blue, had a massive Samsung flat screen on her wall, a love seat, and a bed filled with many different stuffed animals and plushies of Pokémon, especially Mudkips.

"Never knew you were a Pokémon fan."

Grace picked up one of her Mudkip plushies and stared it down before pulling it into a hug. "Pokémon was my childhood. How could I not love it?"

"I support Mudkip since that was my Hoenn starter back in like 2000 something growing up. I've played every game since originally playing Red but my all time favorite game is Platinum and my favorite Pokémon is Umbreon."

"You're a bigger fan than I was then," She said, sitting down in her loveseat and turning the tv on, "I only played up to Emerald and absolutely fell in love with Mudkip. Just look at these cheeks!"

Luca chuckled and sat down in the smaller space next to her before adjusting Grace to where she was sitting on his lap and laying against the cushioned armrests. "I know exactly what I need to get you now to make up for what has happened today."

"Thank you…" Grace mumbled, slightly rubbing her head against his neck. "Today started out so good too…"

"I know, I know. Sometimes life throws you a curveball and you don't expect it. In our case though, life gave us a ball rather than a strike so it means we've got more chances to correct it."

"Odd analogy."

"If it works to help get my point across, then it works."

Grace just smiled and shook her head as she let silence and bliss take over the two. The two blindly watched TV, their minds focused on each other. Luca's head was running around for searching for everything that the two of them could do to make up for the day. Another date at a restaurant would be nice but Luca didn't have a single clue on where any good ones were or how to get to them.

"Do you want to go get dinner?" Grace asked, breaking him out of his trance.

"Oh, um yeah, sure."

The Korean smile and stood up, tossing her plushie back onto the bed. She opened her door and stepped out to wait for Luca so that she could lock her door. Luca walked out of the room and shut the door behind him as he grabbed his girlfriend's free hand. She quickly locked her door before pocketing the key chain. As the two walked down to Mess Hall, Luca asked "So what do you think the new operators that are arriving will be like?"

"I'm not sure honestly. I've never been to Australia or have met somebody from there. All I know is stereotypes and that they're basically the Americans of the land down under since they enjoy doing stupid and absurd things sort of like you guys."

That managed to get a laugh out of Luca, "Blame the British then for the way our countries are now. It's their fault that we've ended up the way we are but I sure as hell wouldn't want it any other way."

"I mean… There are some things you guys could change but I guess they aren't anywhere near as important as everything America is working on. Also, you should take me to America once this entire White Mask ordeal slow down or stops. I'll do the same and take you to Korea eventually."

"We have a good amount of holidays coming out. We may eventually be able to go stateside or to Korea if you'd like that."

"That would be a dream come true."


Hereford Base, England

2/03/2019

7:45 AM

~"This announcement is a heads up for all operators. The meeting shall be held in the Meeting Room at 8:00 sharp, do not be late or there will be consequences. Fuze, I'm talking to you." The overhead speaker said to the waiting crowd that were currently eating breakfast.

"We might as head there early. It'll probably start sooner if we all arrive before the deadline as well as make Six in a better move after the event that had occurred yesterday." Miles suggested, standing up from his seat.

Mumbling filled the entirety of Mess Hall as the man left. Luca and Grace looked at each other before shrugging and standing to follow their fellow operator. As they made their way to the door, more and more operators stood to follow leaving no person behind. The group made their way into the Meeting Room, surprised to see that Jordan, Mike, Eliza, and Marius were already already in their seats, waiting patiently and enjoy small talk with each other. When Jordan spotted Luca and Grace enter the room, he motioned for them to come sit with his group.

"Good morning you two," The Texan said as they sat down across from him, "Have you guys been doing alright since the incident?"

"Yeah, we're fine for the most part Jordan, what about you guys? You were the ones fighting the majority of the White Masks."

"Ve're fine, zhey vere all just grunts for zhe most part. Nozhing ve couldn't handle had even shown up." Marius said said he pulled out a packet of gum before distributing a piece to each member of the group.

Eliza happily took her piece and slid into her mouth, chewing it till it got soft so that she could talk. "Me and Cav were mainly just scouts. Afterall, we did encounter Luca and Grace later down the line after Jordan's squad found Luca and let him go on his merry way."

"Still don't know why ya didn't follow yer orders lad," Mike spoke up, pointing all eyes on Jordan, "But it worked out in the end and saved Grace's arse so I guess I can't be too cross with yeh."

Luca put his face on the table and sighed, "If anything did happen to her, it would have been my fuckin fault since I had her separate from me just moments after the attack in hopes of her getting to safety. I should have known better that she'd try and do her part in helping. I'm just too use to pushing others way and being a lone wolf the whole way through."

Thatcher chuckled, "Old habits die hard. And don't worry, your lass can handle herself well enough to not have to worry about her."

It seemed like Mike was going to continue with what he was saying but the sound of someone clearing their throat from the stage. All eyes turned to Six who stood behind the microphone podium, neatly stacking some papers. "Hello everybody, I'm glad to see everybody here and I'm even happier to say that no injuries… Major injuries at least now that I'm taking a look at that soon to be scar on Ghost's face. Anyways, I would like to use meeting as a way to welcome to new faces that had came in just before the collapse of Big Ben. However, I'd like for all the operators that have joined our team after the original groups to meet somebody. He's worked behind the scenes ever since Rainbow was first created. He actually worked with the group up until we recruited Frost and Buck where he then moved off the premises. Havarish Pandey. Or should I say Six?"

"Please, just Harry." The man said as he walked onto the stage. He gazed through the many confused and concerned eyes due to their Director calling him Six. "Yes yes, I know you all have questions about who I am and what I do for Rainbow for everybody that had never met me. However, I have taken up a very important position because the Six you know has gotten a promotion into a high position in the U.S government that I do not have the closure to speak about. I have some big boots to fill now that she shall be moving onto bigger and better things so I hope deep within my heart that you will all accept me as your new Director." Everybody who knew Harry applauded as he took a step back to let their now Ex-Director speak to the group one final time.

"Thank you Harry, you'll make for a fine replacement. I've thought long and hard about it for the last month before deciding you were the perfect person for the job. Moving on though, we have two more faces here that haven't been met yet. Gridlock, Mozzie, come on up please."

Two people walked on to the stage, one was a short man that looked like a ginger Freddy Mercury and a bigger woman who looked like she could give most of the operators in here a beat down in CQB. "Mozzie, please step up and tell the operators a little bit about you and your gadget."

"Uhh Hello everybody! Me name's Max "Mozzie" Goose and both me and my mate Tori over there both came from Australia's very own SASR. Where I excel and will provide usefulness for Team Rainbow is scouting and planning. I can whip up a plan before any of ya even think about making one as well as I was the test driver for our military's stealth bikes so I know a thing or two about being under the radar."

The man stopped speaking to take a drink of water before continuing and pulling out what they could only assume is his gadget. "The cheeky bugger roight here is me gadget. It launches these lil mechanic spiders that can take ova drones if they get to close. Because I have the pests set to bust themselves after they perform their hack, there is no possible way to remove me from thou drone besides destroying the damn thing."

Grace and Luca looked at each other and smirked, "Finding a way to bypass the security system on another operator's gadget? Sounds like that'll be a blast to find a counter hack for."

"I'm to let me best mate speak now so I'll be seeing you around." Max finished, backing off to let his other fellow recruit get a turn to speak.

The woman made her way to the stand and adjusted it to a better suited height for herself before beginning to speak. "Hello, name's Tori "Gridlock" Tallyo Fairfield. Just like me mate Mozzie over there, I'm also from the land down under's SASR division. If you need help wrenching anything, just let me know. I'm one hell of a mechanic but I specialize in vehicles mainly. Especially that Viper I saw when I first arrived, she's a beaut and I'd love to meet the bloke who owns that." Luca raised his hand in which she acknowledged him before continuing, "Thank you Sir, but enough about that and what I can do. This cylinder that is currently next to the podium is the gadget that I have brought to me. If I pull the pin and throw it, a spike trap spawns from it which in return propels miniature spike strips that expand into full sized traps, about 10 of em or so. Great for blocking off entry points, flanks, I've even used these suckers to get those pesky little buggers in corners and as a spike strip against pursuing vehicles."

Tori took a step back as Six walked back to the podium. Six smiled as looked around all her operators, this was the very last time she'd get to see them all as a family. "Each and every one of you, from those who have been here from the start of Team Rainbow, to our most recent operators, Kaid, Nomad, Ghost, even you two Gridlock and Mozzie, you were an amazing family to me for these three years and this meeting is our last time together, at least for a while. I hope you can all find it in your hearts to accept Harry as your new Director. Do what you all know how to do best and protect the world from terrorist scum. This is my farewell as I have a flight ready to take me to Bristol where I'll be met with another flight straight to Washington D.C. This meeting is over, I hope you guys all have a good rest of your day. Mozzie, Gridlock, go get to know your new team. Harry, meet me in your soon to be office, I have something to discuss with you before I leave."

"Hey, we'll catch you all later," Luca said, waving towards him buddies as he grabbed Grace's hand, "I assume we've got some chitter chatter about to happen with these newbies."

"Sounds good, we'll see you around." Eliza waved the couple off.

Grace and Luca were some of the first operators to leave the room while the rest engaged in conversation about what would probably become some Rainbow with their new Director. They saw that the two aussies were waiting at the door for them as they exited the Meeting Hall. Luca stuck his hand out and shook hands with Gridlock then Mozzie, "Luca 'Ghost' Pirelli, this lovely lady with me is my beautiful girlfriend Grace 'Dokkaebi' Nam."

"I'd introduce us but we've just done that so I'm sure you remember our names, is it cool if we take a look at the Viper? I haven't seen one of them in my life." Tori said, giving Luca a light tap on the shoulder.

"Sure thing. I happen to be a mechanic myself as well as I'm a hacker just my girlfriend. Once we're out there, while you look around the car, Me and Grace actually have a challenge for Max here."

"Sounds good, we can discuss that at the car if ya's don't mind too much."

"Not a problem."

The four made their way to the parking lot and tossed his keys to the new girl so that she could look around as well as take it for a drive as long as she didn't completely just full send it or crash it. It was a bit chilly outside so he lended his hoodie to Grace who happily put it on before wrapping arm arms around his chest while he had his arm around her.

"So what's this challenge that you two little hackers have for me? I assume it has something to with these little critters?" Max asked, pulling out a small capsule from his pocket and pressed a small button on top of it. Bits of the gadget came from the capsule forming legs, some sort of radio transmission area which detects drones, and a single blue eye which was probably its camera. At the bottom just under where the legs left the body were multiple needles and tiny lights.

Grace removed one of her arms from Luca and held it out to the short Aussie man who let his little robotic spider wander onto her hand. "Aww, I love it which is weird because I hate spiders. But what this is about comes from something you said when introducing yourself. You said that this little thing self destructed in some way to prevent a hack from taking the drone back. I understand that it's due to it processing through the drone than almost all hacks that we… well, you've done testing with. We think that we could make a program though that works faster than it does which in return we could use to upgrade this cutie and have them work quicker."

"If yeh want to try and make something that can bypass my wee little pest, then go ahead. I think it'll end up just being a waste of yer valuable time as it's as fast as can be."

"Are we allowed to use one of these cuties to do our work on or are we working with our limited knowledge then you'll provide one for us to test on with a drone?"

"I'm able to provide both. I've talked with that Harry lad about some stuff. He said that we won't have to worry about preserving our gadgets and that we've got more spending money from all the different governments round the world."

"Okay, thank you!" Grace exclaimed, as the Pst jumped off her hand and onto his shoulder.

Behind the three, Luca's car roared to life with Tori grinning from behind the wheel of the beast. "Cmon Mozzie! Let's let er rip! She's definitely a certified ripper!"

The ginger gave the couple a two fingered salute and made his way to the car. Before he could close the door, Luca called out and said "Get her back in one piece would ya. Just drop by my room which is next to yours and knock. We'll be in there so you can drop my keys off!"

"Got it Chief. Cmon Tori, let's get a move on and have some fun!"

The sound of tires screeching and the Viper's engine screaming filled the air as the two Australians left the parking lot. "You really trust them with your car driving like that?" Grace asked looking into his eyes.

Luca shrugged, "I may not know them but she's a fellow mechanic. I trust her. The only other operator here I would let drive like that is Siu. She's a hell of a driver, my only worry is that she's 5'3."

Grace giggled, "Yeah. I don't think I'd want somebody that small to drive a car as expensive as yours. I don't even know if you could trust me in your car because I don't even know how to drive stick shift."

"You do realize that I'm going to force you to learn how to drive stick today. You haven't experienced a true vehicle until you've driven a manual car. But that sort of has to wait since I don't have my car now. Anyways, come on kid. Let's go back to the room." Luca said, swiping her off her feet. Grace started laughing and squirming to get out of his hold as he began taking her back inside of the base. He had actually managed wrap him forearm around her and block her arms from trying to provoke him.

The pair got a few odd looks from the other operators but they hardly noticed. They were just hanging out, enjoying their time together. In recent times, Luca has been leaving his room unlocked for whenever Grace and him had separate training sessions so that she could await for him to finish and see him after he showered. Luca and Grace approached his door so he unwillingly released one of her arms, allowing her to open the door just enough to where he could push it open with his knee. Rather than setting her down like he normally would, he sat on the bed and kicked his legs up and let Grace sprawl out on top of him while still holding onto her torso. He covered her neck with multiple light pecks, causing her to just melt into his hold.

"You know," He whispered into her ear, "I don't think I have ever told you this before. But I actually regret not opening up to you sooner."

"Hmm? What makes you say this all of a sudden? We have been dating only three says playboy." Grace mumbled back, her eyes closed in bliss.

"I tried to be stoic and killer like for my entire time here. I'm glad that after those first weeks, you had managed to open me up. Well, somewhat. I'm still full of secrets that you have yet to discover as well as things that shall never been revealed to the world again."

Grace pushed herself up and turned to where she was sitting on his lap with her legs to each side. After wrapping her arms behind his neck and pressed her forehead against his. "I'll just open every door that you have and take peeks until I get the full picture. Hell, I may just breach the door if you let me."

"I'll think about letting you do that but it's going to take you a good while to even get your foot in the door for some of the events that have happened in my life."

"It'll be worth it…" Grace mumbled, connect lips with Luca just as a knock came from the door.

Grace groaned and got off of Luca, "Of course people always have to ruin the moment…" She pouted as she crossed her arms.

Luca smiled and shook his head at her getting upset at the unfortunate timing as he stood and walked to the door, opening it to reveal Tori and Max.

"Here's ya keys mate. She's an amazing ride. Am glad that I've joined Team Rainbow now, we gotta get out and find ourselves a project car for when we have some free time, maybe import something that ain't here in Britain." The hefty woman said, tossing him the keys.

"That'll be no problem madame. I can buy us something and all the parts necessary to rebuild it. I don't know if you've seen our APV garage yet, but we've got all the tools we would ever need in there."

"Alrighty, thanks for letting me know. I'll go check it out and we better get going to find us something to bring back from the dead." She said, turning to leave.

"And mate, just call me Mozzie. I've gone by it for so long and at this point, it's weird if anybody besides me hubby calls me Max." The man requested.

"No problem dude, I'll see you around."

"Later man!" He said, jogging away to catch up to his fellow new operator.

Luca closed the door and locked it. "So where were we?" He asked, looking over his shoulder to his girlfriend.


Boom, that felt like this bitch took ages but it made it within the time frame I set for myself but hey. This chapter is going to come out as soon as I finish spellcheck so like 20 minutes after I finish writing this portion of the Author's note.

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